Gerakan Youth opposes use of PPPA on internet
By Deborah Loh, The Nut Graph
Gerakan Youth is against a Home Ministry proposal to use the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984 on the internet media.
Youth chief Lim Si Pin criticised the suggestion by the ministry's secretary-general, Datuk Mahmood Adam, who was reported in the China Press recently as saying that the act might be used to regulate the online media.
Lim said Gerakan Youth was concerned with this possibility, adding that this would hinder the growth of democratic ideals.
"Any effort to impose strict controls or conditions on the flow and exchange of information in the internet domain is certainly a futile act and one that will only hurl our society back into the dark ages. Freedom of ideas and information is necessary for the progress of society," Lim said in a statement today.
